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IS UNSAFE WATER AN IMPORTANT ISSUE

With a population of 1.2 billion according to the 2011 census, India has only 1,000 cubic meters of clean water per person

A country is considered water-stressed if it has less than 1,700 cubic meters per person per year.

bacteria from streams, rivers, cisterns, and poorly constructed wells, or any well that is not a drilled well and does not have a watertight casing that extends to a depth of at least six meters below ground level.

pesticide runoff due to its usage in agriculture, heavy metal contamination caused by irresponsible factories and mines, religious practices such as the burning of corpses in the Ganges River, sewage contamination attributed to a shortage of wastewater treatment plants, and underlying policies and government action that sometimes let pollution happen through loose enforcement of laws.